Proud Graeme Shinnie reckons his Aberdeen teammates deserve enormous credit for using their shame as a launchpad to turn Aberdeen back into a European name.
The Pittodrie campaign has gone from the lowest of the low to them finishing best of the rest and European qualification - that could guarantee group stage football until Christmas, if Celtic win the Scottish Cup. It comes just four months after the worst spell in the club’s history, where they embarrassingly crashed in the Scottish Cup to Darvel and were smashed by five and six by Hearts and Hibs, respectively.
It saw Jim Goodwin sacked and it left Shinnie embarrassed when the axe fell on his former manager. Shinnie admitted third wasn’t even on the agenda, at that point, it was more about arresting the slump - which new boss Robson has done in some style. He said: “When a manager loses his job you always feel ashamed really. We probably had one of the worst weeks in the club’s history and that is never easy to get away from.
